This is about Cluj, not Mississippi, right?
Well, as we’ve shown before, Cluj businesses which claim to provide services in English (including those that translate advertisements into English), use bad English that no native speaker can understand. Therefore, we think it is important to show the full data on how non-native speakers actually learn the language.
For a review, Mississippi has become top in America for reading levels among “Hispanics.” While it is possible that many hispanic Americans are native English speakers, the improvement is significant.
As we can see, the Governor attributes his success to “conservative” teaching measures, including phonics. It isn’t yoga, or leadership, or some new age method that he is crediting. However, that Foundation for Government Accountability is leaving out a big thing. Spending.
Spending is important not only in education, but in environmental goals as well. We see the two are linked, those who lack education are less likely to recycle (and less likely to dispose of waste properly if they work for or own a recycling business, or business that happens to win a recycling tender.)
The so-called transparency laws have done nothing for Romania. Sure, they help journalists like Recorder to find a scandal when a giant construction firm has no head office, but they also waste a lot of ANAF’s time trying to figure out when a self employed writer who is moonlighting as a designer is overreaching his scope (which in other countries, you could just declare yourself as self-employed for unregulated industries, without having to pick a field.)
The problem in Romania is every field is regulated, not just those that deal with food, waste, construction, or medical. Officials waste their time with such stupid laws as those that result in fining The Big Friendly Giant for bad grammar. And then we wonder why environmental disasters make people sick.
If we look at Mississippi’s reading, they don’t find people for bad grammar. Instead, children “learn to read” when they are young, so they can “read to learn” after fourth grade.
Investments go not into mindfulness coaches, but reading coaches. Mississippi deals directly with the problem, not with some trendy buzzword that doesn’t even get translated.
Romania could also bring in specialists to teach things that the teachers may not have learned at university. Specialist assistants to help Romanian students learn the basics, not just memorise things that not even their teachers understand.
Then, students can still learn important things about health, the environment, and more through books. The top books will no longer be by fake gurus who make up rich dads and poor dads or have fake biographies about being a monk, but rather about how to help make the world a better place, or even just fantasy adventures that are fun to read and help us build our skills so we understand more complex things better in the future.